THE MAGNETIC PULL
Morning walk with one of my soul sisters cause what better way to start the day? A dear friend, the beach, her sweet dog, the seagulls, the sun. It was chilly but I walked barefoot, my feet frozen at first, and warm half way through. Happiness.
For everything you and I love, there is an art to it, there is science to it, and I dare say there is spirit to it.
Sometimes we might ask ourselves - why do I like this? Or, why don’t I like this? I ‘should’ like it. Anyone else would like it! We try to make sense of things and it’s so enormously rewarding when we do find a rational explanation or a metaphor to put things in perspective. Often it takes a while for truth to shape up into something we can name or recognize.
Underneath what we love there is simple chemistry, a magnetic pool towards where we need to be. When we reflect on it later, or when we journal or talk about it and we can begin to see a pattern or an explanation, it feels so good to ‘get it’.
Whether we understand why we are pulled toward something or we don’t, when we allow ourselves to feel good and let ourselves move throughout our day guided by our uncluttered intuition, we do good things. We like ourselves. We love life.
The happiness practice then becomes that of sharpening our senses and getting rid of what’s in the way. The mindsets that hold us back, the voice that criticizes us that makes us believe (boo!) that we should play small. The practice becomes that of visualizing the beauty and allowing ourselves to go there. Courage is what we call a willingness to not resist the inner pull toward something we don’t have a rational explanation for but we do it anyway. I’m aware some people might call that acting irrationally, craziness, nonsensical.
It’s how I transformed my life, over and over and over again. The calling for beauty is always there, the nudge towards the next great thing we can do or be is always present, 100% unabashed. The practice is turning our attention inward to feel it and opening our senses outward to conjure it.
